Robert D. Doolaard

Robert D. Doolaard / September, 2021

André Barbault, Pandemics and Wars

In the spring of 2020 the Astrological Journal published an interesting article by André Barbault, written in 2011. In it he foresees that 2020-2022 could well bring an outbreak of a pandemic. And unfortunately he was right! Read more »

Robert D. Doolaard / November, 2019

In Memoriam André Barbault

My interest in astrology began in 1962, at the age of 20 but at the time I could find very little information on the aspects which most fascinated me, like mundane astrology and the influence of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto on history. However, that all changed in 1963 when I found a copy of André Barbault's article “What will the future bring?” Read more »

A former student of the Rotterdam Art Academy, he spent many years of his life working as an artist-painter. From 1962 he studied astrology, his particular interest centring on mundane astrology. In 1986 his book Waves was published by Ankh-Hermes. In this, Robert Doolaard described his unique research into the correlation between planetary cycles and the peaks and lows in recorded history over the past twenty-six centuries.
According to Doolaard, civilisation consists of the collective effort by humankind to rid the world of suffering. Both the successes as the failures of this effort run parallel to differentiable phases of planetary cycles. He therefore also refers to this original new vision into our past as planetary-cyclic historiography.

The Cosmic Code of History

Exploring Mundane Astrology

A Neptunian survey

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